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- From: Marc_North@mindlink.bc.ca (Marc North)
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:58:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <18854@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- > Jon Noring writes:
- >
- > 4) What books would you recommend in learning C (my wife might want to take
- > classes - I do better teaching myself)? And of course, since I will be
- > doing programming on a PC, what books would you recommend that are
- > specific to that platform, especially w.r.t. memory management as well
- > as graphics?
-
-
- I MUST get up on my soapbox for just a moment and say that I HIGHLY recommend
- "PRACTICAL C PROGRAMMING", by Steve Oualline. Published by O'Reilly &
- Associates, Inc. ISBN 0-937175-65-X ( Look for a book with a cow on the cover
- -- and that's the one! )
-
- This book was, for me, my 'break-through' book. I had bought a ton of other
- books before, and all had failed me ( or had I failed them? ). This one did
- the trick. It's aimed at both UNIX and DOS users and it will take you from
- zero right on up to the point where you will have a good foot-hold into the
- language.
-
- After that, go and get a copy of K&R ( "THE C [ANSI C] PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE"
- Second Edition, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Published by
- Prentice Hall Software Series. ISBN 0-13-110362-8 ) and you should be just
- fine until you start to feel the urge to spread a bit more and then other
- books become quite obviously necessary.
-
- Hope that helped -- and good luck!
-
- Marc
-
-
- --
- Marc North -- The Lanceholder's Group
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